THE MISSION
Worldwide Containment
Our mission was to provide the world with affordable, effective, and rapidly deployable solutions to contain airborne disease. These systems were designed to be built locally, using materials available anywhere in the world.
See exactly how we accomplish our goals
Step 1: Careful Planning
Months of eighteen-hour days beginning in March 2020 — aggregating the available research on UVGI, viruses, materials, components, manufacturers, and the talent needed to build a solution from the ground up.
Step 2: Team Assembly
A network of leading experts in materials science, engineering, physics, and manufacturing came together around the project.
Step 3: Follow Through
The network was organized, the work mobilized, and the system designed, modeled, and proven. What you see here is the result — preserved as a free, open record of what was built.
THE SYSTEM
We put science first!
The system used rigorous physics to make the design as efficient as possible — optimizing airflow, power, filtration, size, shape, sound, controls, and materials.
We ran multiple rounds of CFD (computational fluid dynamics) analysis on high-performance supercomputers and built what may be the world's first UVGI-AP-TNPI Calculator.
THE INFO
Our stats at a glance.
50+ NETWORK
$5-10k Per System
10+ COUNTRIES
THE SCALE
Producing the system at the scale the pandemic demanded — on the order of 62,000 units — was estimated at roughly $495 million. Against the trillions in economic losses and the lives that rapid isolation capacity can save, that figure is modest. It was also far beyond what any individual could finance. The production phase was never funded, and so it was never built. What could be designed, modeled, and proven was — and that work is what this site preserves.
THE NETWORK
This was never theoretical. The project built real relationships across the industrial base that mass production would require — management-level contacts at major plastics and fan manufacturers, suppliers for lighting and sheet metal, and direct collaboration with lead plastics scientists on the materials at the heart of the design. It also drew inbound interest from international funding. That offer was declined, because it was conditioned on converting Covid Clean into a for-profit venture — a direction at odds with its purpose as an open, accessible public good.
THE EFFORT
Everything behind this work was funded personally by the project’s founder, Nicolas Bouri, and carried at his own expense from 2020 onward — the engineering, the CFD modeling, the prototype builds, the research, and six years of keeping this site online. No outside funding was sought or received. In 2020 the work was aided by volunteers and advisors who gave their time during the early days of the pandemic.
THE GOAL
Worldwide network. Local impact. This was a human effort that recognized no borders. Disease doesn’t respect them, and neither should the response. The aim was always to break down barriers to access across the globe — because what affects one of us affects all of us.